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- From: orknorr@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Oliver Knorr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: QWK OFFLINE MAIL READER?
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:43:43 GMT
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
- Message-ID: <1k0n9vEINN3p0@uni-erlangen.de>
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- geoff.newman@f54.n54.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Geoff Newman) writes:
-
-
- >Few things have depressed me more about the state of the Amiga software base
- >than my fruitless search for a decent QWK offline mail reader.
-
- >I've tried the following:
-
- > Amiga Reader v1.0 and 2.0b
-
- > AQuick v2.1
-
- > Somthing horrible called AmigaMail
-
- > Q-Blue v0.7
-
- > Quip v1.02
-
- >Without exception, they all have something wrong with them which makes them
- >either tedious or unusable for my purposes (I'm using the QSO mailer for
- >MS-DOS).
-
- >Q-Blue and Quip are the most promising but the former can't properly justify
- >quoted text (by the author's own admission) and Quip's message viewer seems
- >to have a similar problem when it encounters messages longer than a certain
- >number of columns. And they are just the bugs I can't work around.
-
- I'm the author of quip and I'd love to help you out here.
- What problems do you exactly have with the message viewer?
- Please describe them a bit longer, so I can reproduce and fix them.
-
- At the moment I can only think of the fact that the message viewer
- doesn't have a text reflow routine, so you get 'ugly' output if
- the text does have line breaks instead of paragraph breaks and the
- lines are a bit longer than what fits in the display.
-
- You can work around this by making the display bigger (resize the
- quip window, pehaps use an overscanned screen) or using a smaller
- font (or a proportional one like helvetica instead of a fixed-width
- typeface).
-
- Perhaps the next release of quip might help you, too. It will have
- a faster message display, but don't expect reflow yet. So what
- might fix your problem is the fact that you can configure the next
- release to use an external messageviewer like More, Muchmore,
- Multiview etc. instead of the builtin one.
-
- >What I would like to know is if there are better QWK mail readers out there
- >(I can't use ftp sites) or, in particular, later versions of Q-Blue and
- >Quip.
-
- I'm afraid it might still take some time for the next release,
- as I'm currently involved in several other projects, too. A stable
- beta version of the software is finished, but the new rewritten
- manual is still in the works.
-
- As usual, the new version will be distributed on the AMINET,
- that is amiga.physik.unizh.ch and its mirrors.
-
- >Thanks in advance,
-
- >Geoffrey Robert Newman
-
- I will mail you as soon as it's finished.
-
- >--- TMail v1.31.2
- > * Origin: Prophet BBS - Western Sydney, Australia (3:54/54)
- ---
- /// Amiga Release 2 - They made it. Better than ever.
- ///
- \\\ /// Oliver Knorr, St. Johann 6, W-8520 Erlangen, Tel. ++49 (0)9131 46363
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